Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-07

tions! Thou type of heaven, I could
kiss the very dust with ecstasy of aflec-
tion.
For her my tears shall fall.
For her my prayers ascend,
To her my tolls and cares are given
Till tolls and cares shall end
"Perfumed smoke" saws Solomon. in
the words folio wing my text. Not like
the fumes coughed up from the throat of a
steam pipe, or poisoned with the gaSses of
chemical factories, or floating in black
wrath from the conflagration of home
stcads, or sulphurous from blazing batter
les but sweet as burning grove of cinna-
mon, or jungle of sasSairas, or the odors of
temple censer. Who is this that cometh
out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh aud frankincenSe?n
Hear it, men and women everywhere, that
the advance of the genuine Church of
Christ means peace for all nations.
VICTOR HUGO,
in his book entitled "Ninety-three, says:
Nothing calmer than smoke, but nothing
more startling. There are peaceful smokes
and there are evil ones. The thickness
and color of line of smoke make the
whole difference between war and peace,
between fraternity and hatred. The whole
happiness of man or his complete misery
is sometimes expressed in this thin vapOr
which the wind scatters at will" The
great Frenchman was right, but 90 fur
ther and say that as the kingdom OF God
advanced like pillars of smoke, the black
volume belches from batteries of war and
pouring out from port holes of ships will
vanish from the sky.
A distinguished gentleman of the late
war told me recently that Abraham Lin
coin proposed to avoid our civil conflict by
purchase of all the slaves OF the South and
setting them free. He calculated what
would be a reasonable price for
them, and, when the number of millions
OF dollars that would be required for such
q purchase was announced, the proposition
was secuted, and the North would not have
made the offer and the South would not
have accepted it if made. But" said
my military friend, "the war went on and
Just the number of millions of dollars that |
Mr.. Lincoln calculated would have been |
enough to make a reasonable purchase of
all the slaves, were spent in war; besides |
all the precious lives that We're hurled
away in thetwo hundred and fifty battles"
In other words, there ought To be some |
other way for men to settle their contrO-
verSies without wholesale butchery.
THE CHURCH OF GOD
will yet become the arbiter of nations. III
the world would allow it, it could to-day
step i'll between Germany and France and
settle the trouble about AlSace and Lor-
r;line, and between Russia and Bulgaria,
and between England and her antagonists,
and between all the other nations that are
lying ut each others thrOats, and COM
mand peace and disband armies, and har-
ness for the plough the horses now being
hitched 10 ammunition wagons or saddled
for cavalry charge That time must come,
or through the increased facility for shoot
ing men aud blowing up cities and whelm-
ing hosts to instant death, so that we can
kill regiment easier than we could once
kill company, and kill brigade easier
than we could once kill a regiment, and
the patent offices of the world more busy
than ever in recognizing new enginery of
destruction, The human race will after
awhile 20 fighting with one arm, and hob
bling with one foot, and stumbling along
with one eye and some ingenious inycn-
tor inspired OF the archangel of all mis-
chief will contriyc n machine that will
bore Il hole to the earth's CEN
tire, and some desperate nation will |
throw into that hole enough dynamite to
blow this hulk of planet into fragments,
dropping like mcteoric stones on surround
ing stellar habitations.
But this shall not he, for whatever else
| let 90, | hang On 10 my Bible, which
tells me that the blacksmith's shop shall
yet come 10 its grandcst Use when the
warrior and the hnsbandman shall enter
it side by side and the soldier shall throw
into its bank of fires his sword, and the
farmer shall pick ii up plOughSharc. and
the straightcst spear shall he bent into
crook at each end, and then cut in two,
and what WAS one spear shall hr two prun-
ing forks. Down with Moloch and up
with Christ Let no more war horses eat
ont Of the mangcr where Jesus was born.
PEACE!
Forever roll off the sky the black pillars
of smoke from the MarengOs, and Sala-
mancas, and BorOdinOs, and Sedans and
Gcttysburgs OF the earth; and right after
them roll into the heavens the peaceful
vapOrs from the chimneys of f;IrmhOuSes,
and asylums, and churches, and capitals
of Christian nations, and, as the sunlight
strikes through these vap0rS, they will
write in letters Of jet and gold, all over
the sky from horizon to horizon: ''GlOry
to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
,rnnI Urtn tp ,,,nnf' rha,, "a oil tha
oi-war fire a broadside, and all the forts
thunder forth reSunding vollcy, and the
earth be girdled with the cannonadc over
the final victory of the truth.
While thinking of these things ! looked
out from my window. and the wind was
violently blowing; and saw from many
chimneys the smoke tossed in the air and
whirled in great velocity, volume after
volume, fold after fold, and carried on the
swift were the great pillars of
smoke. And, helped by Solomon in
the church symbolized Do yOu believe
the momentum the Church Of God is
under: Why, the smoke of chimney on
the top of Mount Washington when the
wind is blowing sixty miles the hour, is
slow as compared with the celerity of good
influences. Eor fifty-nine centuries the
devil had it his own way among the na.
tions. Nearly all the great missionary
movements have been started within the
century, and see what one century has
done to recover the world from flfty-night |
centuries of devastation. What great re-
vivals! What mighty churches What
saved millions! What advancing civiliza-
tion! In all the United States, Great
Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy,
full freedom TO worship God according to
conscience. Along the coasts of China,
Japan and Africa the batteries are planned
which are to take all these Empires for
God and civilization. From
THE Ruins or BABYLON,
and Assyria and Nineveh and the valleys
OF the Nile, contirmations have been ex
humed proving to all fIir-minded men that
the Bible Is the trucst book ever written.
The mythologies of Egypt were found to
have embodied in them the knowledge Of
mans expulsion from Paradise, and the
sacrifice of q great emancipation. Moses